Neil

Potential also for juicy Hot Takes along the lines of "obvs it was all downhill for the Scream after Velocity Girl"

ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch - ONE MORE TUNE, by The Dark Outside, TDO Cassettes & Bibliotapes 41 track album

Will be continuing to irregularly post about this on a gentler level from here on out but thanks once more to everyone who has picked up #OneMoreTune and thus donated to help #JDTwitch and his causes over the past week of release. It's been something to see. Keep spreading the word!

The Blair Witch Project : Petrified or Peeved? In 1999, a low-budget 'found footage' horror film called The Blair Witch Project became a pop culture sensation. It was hyped as one of the most frightening films ever made, and for many it li...

So Disappointed is a new podcast devised by @wednesdaygj.bsky.social and myself. It tackles the very wide-ranging, inherently fascinating and deeply complicated subject of phenomenal disappointment.

Episode 1 is now available. If you like it, please repost. Ta.

audioboom.com/posts/875302...

YouTube video by VideoXL The Rocky Horror Picture Show "Time Warp" (1975) - (4K)

Amazing bit of music trivia, I'm pretty sure this is the only song that uses the major chords A, B, C, D, E, F and G and no others, no sharps, flats or minors.

youtu.be/u1O2-oFmWXM?...

WE ARE BACK THIS SUNDAY MORNING. #FirstLastAnything

Ooft match of the tournament so far, could have easily voted for any of these in alternate groupings! Saving my Neu! vote for Day 8 and boosting one of my favourite Eno vocal tracks, crackling Wimshurst guitar and all.
Now, if it'd been Metal Machine Music Side *1*...

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/love2jdtwi...

Crowdfunder for @optimo-espacio.bsky.social
help, if you can x

Let Me Be Your Fantasy World Dizzy

#POP75 Best Track Of 1975 Round 1 Day 1 Welcome to #POP75, from @peoples-pop-polls.bluesky.com where we will be finding the BEST SONG OF 1975 over the course of a few rounds. The format is simple! Here are 7 groups of tracks, you pick the ...

Mama, just polled a man...

Welcome to #pop75 aka

THE WORLD CUP OF 1975

And here are the polls for the first day! Pick your favourite in each and give one track a bonus

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I Love You, Byeee by Adam Buxton review – catnip for comedy nerds Adam Buxton gives his devoted fans the lowdown on his comedy career in the charming and endearingly honest I Love You, Byeee.

"The detailed chapters on the making of their inventive low-budget DIY comedy opus The Adam and Joe Show are catnip for comedy nerds."

My @bigissue.com review of I Love, You Byeee by Adam Buxton.

www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Reservoir Dogs was 1992, not 1994. Pulp Fiction was 2 years later, not 11 years later. Jesus Christ, @theguardian.com, whatever wretched AI rubbish you’re using in place of proper journalists, it ain’t working. Switch it off.

Unbound/Boundless who no longer have the rights to sell my book are still selling it for FUCKING $4 on Amazon. Talk about some shady fucking shit. Trying to burn through the inventory THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SELL before they are forced to send me the remaining stock. Weasels.

Bob Vylan: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine

The Daily Telegraph: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine

9 months later: We regret to inform you that Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine are political

Hope Kate and Anna (and this track in particular) make the bonus list :)

In Dulci Jubilo / On Horseback - Wikipedia

Could still make it as the double A side single from Nov75, shorn of all those pesky noodly bits?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Dulc...

1) Popol Vuh - Aguirre I
2) Brian Eno - I'll Come Running
3) Stomu Yamashta - Rainsong
4) Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music Track 1

Thanks Tom!

"Anyone who playlists side four is dumber than I am" - phew, lucky escape there

Shayla

Just goes to show how wrong you can be

VU :
Sister Ray
Heroin from 1969 Vol 2
Ocean from 1969 Vol 2

Cale :
Child's Christmas In Wales

Reed :
MMM Track 1 (a break from the consensus pick!)
The Kids
Sad Song

It's a barrel of laughs round here come Reed hour, I can tell you

2 of my faves already picked, so I will expand the selection with The Hall Of Mirrors

And here’s a trawl through SCOTT WALKER’s deep cut catalogue - plenty from his many career phases here

open.spotify.com/playlist/7GM...

Including the entirety of Scott 4, no less!

Massive fan of the gleeful energy of You Hit The Nail On The Head, which I first encountered as the music bed on Chris Morris's 1994 Radio 1 show :)

Pop fact: thirty years ago tonight, Pulp were headlining Glastonbury, and at the exact same time, the first Saturday Night Armistice with @aiannucci.bsky.social went out on BBC2.

"What have you been doing tonight?"
"Just admiring Dr William Alberque, former Arms Director of NATO's CD collection"

William Alberque, a visiting fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre, on Sky News, in front of a wall of albums. Brat is located near his head.

William Alberque, a visiting fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre, on Sky News, in front of a wall of albums. Brat is located near his head.

Big up William Alberque and his prominent copy of Brat

There's a bloke on the news with an absolutely top notch record collection

This is the lad who Channel 4 have got on now as a uranium enrichment expert